Sick of IKEA? Design Your Own Stuff, And Get Rich While You're At It

You know that doohickey you’ve wanted to make for the last decade, but you’ve never had the right materials or equipment? The one that’s going to make you rich? Your time for glory h

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

The title of this post, a (mis)quote from computer scientist Alan Kay, is the last line in a job listing posted by Jeff Bezos in 1994 to the Usenet group mi.jobs. The title of the job listing was &#82

Mint Moves Into Investment Tracking

Silicon Valley-based startup Mint, which provides a service that lets users manage their checking, savings and credit card accounts online, will launch a new product on May 6 that lets users track vir

MySpace.com loses MySpace.co.uk on appeal

MySpace thought it was all over when it secured the MySpace.co.uk domain in February this year. A decision by Nominet’s dispute resolution service handed over the address, which previously had been

Panedia Offers Georeferenced Panoramic Images

Panedia is a content creation and licensing company, specializing in high quality georeferenced photography using immersive panoramic technologies. Panedia offers three core services. Panedia panorama

Samsung's P960: a sweet TV-phone for the European market

How cool does this phone look? I love that it totally has a full antenna. Two would be even better. The P960 is the first slider with mobile TV in Europe, and it supports the Euro mobile TV standards

Marvel cancelling our Iron Man screening? WTF?!

It appears Marvel is none to happy about us giving our readers in SF a crack at Iron Man before opening day since TC just received a C&D from Marvel. MA used to be a lawyer so hopefully he can get

Rumor: NYC getting first dibs on T-Mobile's 3G network this week [Update]

BGR has word that T-Mobile will be letting loose their 3G network May 1. Yes, that’s this Thursday. It corroborates previous rumors by TMoNews that this would be happening soon. Maybe RIM should

AT&T will subsidize 3G iPhone: As low as $199 for subscribers

Apple and AT&T will cut $200 off the price of the iPhone 3G when it arrives this summer. The phones should hit at $399 and $499 for 8 and 16-gigabyte versions and the subsidy should drop the price

EA-Land (The Sims Online) Joins The Deadpool

EA-Land, the service previously known as The Sims Online will shut August 1, despite a much hyped revamp announced late February. The Sims Online was generally regarded to be a failure for EA, with th

Weplug Social Network Launches: Where's the Beef?

Weplug is a new social networking site out of France that aims to combine the best parts of Twitter, Facebook, and geo-location. The site has just entered public beta, and is available on the iPhone a

Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi

Insoshi wants to be WordPress for social networks, except built on top of Ruby on Rails instead of PHP. We covered them in March when they presented at the Spring Y Combinator demo day. Now they&#8217

Judge: "Making available" is not copyright infringement

This is bad for the RIAA, but good for file sharers. Yet another judge today disagreed with the RIAA’s assertion that making copyrighted works available — say, on a P2P network like BitTor

Chumby: Casual gaming platform?

I’ve just wrapped my head around the Chumby as sort of a clock radio with a brain and now they want to add games? Albino Blacksheep and Everybody Panic! are offering accelerometer-based “c

Wishpot Takes $1 Million Series A

Social shopping site Wishpot has taken $1 million Series A in a round led by Monster Venture Partner that included H-Farm and Adrian Hanauer. Wishpot is a social shopping service that lets you collect

Video: Dark Knight, Why so similar?

http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1813453&fullscreen=1 We’re supposed to get a new Dark Knight trailer on Sunday, and I’m excited. We’ve had the teaser

Google Relaunching Measure Map

Those of you who remember MeasureMap are long time readers of this blog. It was a blog-centered analytics service that first surfaced in August 2005. The service was created by San Francisco based Ada

AT&T to Sell 3G iPhone for As Low as $199 in U.S.

Apple and AT&T will cut $200 off the price of the iPhone 3G when it arrives this summer. The phones should hit at $399 and $499 for 8 and 16-gigabyte versions and the subsidy should drop the price

Spammer sentenced to 21 months

Where there is crime, there is a victim, or so the adage goes, and in this case, you’re likely one of the victims yourself. Eddie Davidson was the spam king of Louisville until he was caught in

IndoChino Offers Tailor-Made Suits

Canadian online retailer IndoChino offers a traditionally offline product, tailor-made suits. In 2006, founder and then university student All Heikal Gani wanted a suit that looked good at a reasonabl
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